Deri vows to continue mass deportations of Africans despite injunction

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri says the High Court’s temporary injunction barring the government from deporting tens of thousands of African migrants will not prevent Israel from carrying out the controversial plan.

“Residents of south Tel Aviv, we will counter to the High Court of Justice’s injunction in response to these provocative decisions, and the plan to to return the infiltrators will continue,” Deri posts on Twitter.

“We won’t succumb to lying campaigns,” Deri says. “We will win in the end, because truth and justice will prevail.

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